Beckham hints at retirement U-turn

LONDON - Former England captain David Beckham has hinted that he could come out of retirement and resume his football career. "Now I go to watch a basketball game and, when you are watching athletes play at the top of their game, for me it gives me that itch again," he said in a documentary to be broadcast by the BBC Monday. "I want to be back in the game then and I start thinking to myself, 'Could I play again? Could I go back? Could I come out of retirement and start playing again?'" Beckham, 39, called time on his playing career last year after a brief spell with Paris Saint-Germain. The former midfielder is currently working to launch a Major League Soccer team in Miami and said he might consider turning out for the team. "There's never been a player-owner, but maybe?" he said.–AFP